awestruck - Story 12220 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the worn photograph, a black and white image of the two of them. They had always been friends, and this picture was evidence of that. It felt as if everything depended on this photograph.

"I remember that being the worst haircut I ever had," David said, chuckling. He remembered the exact day, the exact moment.

He remembered the exhilaration, the joy, the feeling that they could do anything. His heart raced. He held the picture tighter, almost afraid to let go.

"It felt like… like we could conquer the world," he breathed.

Emotion: awestruck

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion

PC1 (Valence): -0.17 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.20

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion awestruck. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 awestruck stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the awestruck emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the awestruck vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`L`	0.271
`suddenly`	0.260
`stranger`	0.252
`plötzlich`	0.246
`wonder`	0.242

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.450
`싶`	-0.350
`K`	-0.319
`rest`	-0.248
`싶은`	-0.238